5/10/2023 0 Comments Imagine me gone book reviewThe subject also factored into his first novel, “Union Atlantic,” but with “Imagine Me Gone” - a book that spans almost half a century, two continents and five WASP-y voices - Haslett has reached another level, affording readers a full and luminous depiction of the mind under siege. But even in that book’s longer stories, the author’s strengths seemed somewhat constrained by brevity. Haslett has written about mental illness before, most movingly in the story collection “You Are Not a Stranger Here,” which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Thankfully, “Imagine Me Gone,” Adam Haslett’s ambitious and stirring second novel, owns up to the complexity - and consequence - of what can and cannot be inherited. Yet too many fiction writers lean on conveniently traumatic back stories and oversimplified psychological causality to explain away, rather than complicate, a character’s behavior. For a novelist, though, this uncertainty is a gold mine: rich, thrilling, irresistible. The research can seem, forgive me, maddeningly fluid. Tomorrow the findings could be slightly different, completely reversed or flatly disproved. The same may or may not be true for anxiety disorders. $26.Ĭurrent studies suggest that a child with a depressed parent may be genetically predisposed to depression.
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